wow i wonder if that 300 year gap could be explained by any outside factors…….whoa! for some reason it lines up with the timeline of britain’s invasion and subsequent colonization of ireland! wild, huh? i wonder if the two are connected in some way? i guess the world will never know….
“why do the Irish hate the English so much? It couldn’t have been *that* bad!!”
This was in place till 1973.
Seeing non irish people reblogging this makes me happy
Environment study dump from last month (15 - 50 minutes a sketch). Uh I’ve learned a lot. you can see the sepparate posts on my instagram. Photo refs are from pinterest.
This contraption monitors the sounds that Irish speakers make when they pronounce consonants. It’s for a study by linguists from the University of California-Santa Cruz and University College, Dublin– and it’s part of the global love for the Irish language.
100 years ago this month, Irish rebels staged the Easter Rising– the armed insurrection that eventually led to independence from Britain. Since then, the Irish language has been taught in all schools and heavily supported by the government. For decades, it seemed that language wouldn’t survive. But things have been looking up recently, as younger people have been more open to taking it up. And even singing in the language.
The latest episode of the World in Words podcast is all about the past, present and future of the Irish language.
“When you sat down on the side of the bed, the springs gave a little, but not much. You looked around and recognised that this room was her secret, that you shouldn’t have been there. Not that it was wrong, no, not that, but something more. You could feel it without having the words to say it, a kind of sorry. Not the sorry from robbing or getting hit or chased or even the sorry when you’d find your ma in a state or when your brothers jeered at your da behind his back. It was a new sorry that you felt you’d have for always.”
